Exercise: Design a Learning Pathway

Volume 16, Issue 1 (March 2025), pp. 14–15

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@article{jocse-16-1-3,
  author={Weronika Filinger and Jeremy Cohen and Samantha Wittke},
  title={Exercise: Design a Learning Pathway},
  journal={The Journal of Computational Science Education},
  year=2025,
  month=mar,
  volume=16,
  issue=1,
  pages={14--15},
  doi={https://doi.org/10.22369/issn.2153-4136/16/1/3}
}

Despite the quantity of existing training materials, acquisition and development of the specialist skills required for High Performance Computing (HPC) is not straightforward enough to address the needs of the growing, diversifying and constantly evolving HPC community. The HPC education and training community is exploring different approaches that could facilitate the uptake and progression of technical skills - one of those new approaches is focused on defining and formalising learning pathways. In this lightning talk we will briefly present an exercise designed as a starting point for capturing and outlining learning pathways for the HPC community. This exercise was run for the first time during the ISC'24 BoF on Developing a Sustainable Future for HPC and RSE Skills: Training Pathways and Structures, and was accompanied by a Mentimeter survey to evaluate its effectiveness. The summary of the survey results is also included.